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been very curious about this gothic ii total conversion https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-chronicles-of-myrtana

I basically can't play Minecraft without the Create mod in it, these days. Like sure I guess Minecraft 1.20 is out now, but wake me up when Create is on it.

I think a lot of people would not have touched Arma 2 without the original DayZ mod

It's not quite what you're talking about here, but Slay the Spire got so much more playtime outta me because of character mods, especially the inexplicably extensive roster of touhou characters

Any Bethesda game. Is that a mod? No. Do you know exactly what I mean? Yes.

To be fair I am kinder to vanilla Bethesda games than most. There's a degree to which I think the criticism they get is a bit snobby if anything. Though I don't want to go too hard on that there is PLENTY to critique there I just wish less of it was about the bugs and more about like, the race politics in Skyrim and such.

Also the Horizons Gate mods made by Prominence on the steam workshop. The base game if GREAT but the amount of mods they have put out makes it a real all timer for me!

I've never been that big into modding but for the brief period of time that I played Minecraft there were a few Feed The Beast mods that quickly ruined the vanilla game for me lmao

minecraft tech mods, i got tired of vanilla before the game left beta but i've played off and on for thousands of hours since in modpacks

arma 3 ace, i've never played base arma at all

battletech (pick your poison, all three big packs ones are fantastic and huge)

star wars (tm) empire at war: forces of corruption, which i owned on disc back when and got a tcm for that i loved, and then one day it popped up on steam and i got another copy specifically so i could download mods from the workshop

hah, I just reinstalled this Just Cause 2 mod a few weeks ago so I could record it for twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingThew/status/1668455017353822208

I was trying to survive college while attempting to just willpower my way through some Extremely Undiagnosed ADHD, and mostly ended up spending huge chunks of my time just driving around the JC2 map blasting cars into orbit lmao

(dropping kayfabe to answer this question) I bought Total War medieval II and have never touched the actual game. I only purchased it so I could play the Hyrule Total War mod, which is the only Total War I have ever played.

not quite such an extreme example, but if there's a mod for any game that adds the taunts from dredmor and Death By a Thousand Taunts in any way shape or form, i desperately need it, as well as game over screen replacements

aside from how funny it was in dredmor, it kind of made me realize how much i enjoy it when a game trash talks me! it makes harsh and punishing games feel more like a friendly rivalry instead of a CBT session.

it also makes an actual genuine impact on my gameplay for a game over screen to be a playful or nonsensical insult instead of just "YOU DIED" or some variant

despite being such minor changes, it is often the difference between me bouncing off of a roguelike or sticking to it and clocking in 1500~ hours

idk if it counts, but Yet Another MechLab for mechwarrior 5 strictly because it overhauls the mechlab into the one from mechwarrior online/HBS battletech (the basegame mechlab is a massive downgrade especially considering it's coming from the same company that made mechwarrior online lmao)

I have an answer that literally goes two layers. There was a mod for Unreal Tournament called Tactical Ops that I played the shit out of, and apparently did well enough it got its own standalone retail release. But even on top of that, most of my time playing TacOps wasn't the vanilla mod itself, but with an additional UT bullet-time mutator someone made compatible with TacOps. I put hundreds of hours into that game easily.

I was tempted to answer Rimworld, but it's not 1 mod, it's a bunch of them, which is to be expected for that game!
But the big one that actual fits your question is Campfire Checkpoint for Caves of Qud. (Allows you to save at any campfire instead of just in towns).

personally, i think mostly just long war, unless you count like custom games in warcraft 3? there was no one specific custom game that i played it for, but i played that game pretty much exclusively for the custom games

The X-Com Files for the original X-Com. It multiplies the amount of content by 10 (at least) and brings back the starting date by several years, turning the early game into an X-Files and Men in Black inspired game where you haul a bunch of agents in suits around in a panel van to hunt down cryptids and investigate UFO cults, before the full scale invasion happens and the vanilla X-Com scenario is layered on top of that. It absolutely rules.

ok, this is a bit of a weird get, but someone already mentioned Create. in Fallout: New Vegas there's a mod that adds a camper van that you can use as player housing. It's got all the little things you need in a very tight space, a fold out bed, very cozy. You can move it between the main locations of the game by spending flamer fuel. Combine that with turning off fast travel and playing in hardcore mode, that is the best way to play F:NV imo.

perhaps stretching the definition, but i'm fond of Stalker Anomaly (https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly). the standalone game/mod that combines the maps from every stalker game into one cohesive experience